Book 1, Part 2 Summary

Sabbath lies awake in bed next to his wife Roseanna. He is suffering from an emotion that he has never felt before in his life, jealousy. Now that Drenka is dead, he is tortured by the memories of all the men she slept with. All the details he loved to hear when she was alive now torment him in the dead of night. He wishes he could shake her and tell her to be with no one but him, but it's too late. Sabbath can no longer even accept the idea of her sleeping with Matija, which did not bother him before. Now the details Drenka had told him about her sexual encounters with Matija drive him mad with jealousy.

A couple of months after Drenka died, Sabbath had run into Matija at the Stop & Shop in Cumberland. He had introduced...